Not connecting the matrix to society or anything but just as a discussion of the trilogy which greatly disappointed me after the first one which was excellent.
I didn’t get Jesus, or satan, or collectivism, or salvation. To me the matrix was about how individual choices don’t matter. How one can be presented as a fighter against the system and really be the one keeping the system going. Neo is presented as a hero as a savior, but all he really saved was the matrix. Neo, is both a human being and a software program created by the matrix that is inplanted in a human being. And the neo software program was created by the matrix to keep the matrix going. That’s the neo software’s ultimate goal, to fix the flawed matrix program from collapsing under the weight of the collective human psyches it’s trying to contain. I don’t even know if the “free human beings” who exist outside of the matrix actually exist outside of the matrix. They have no memory of the past, no documentation of all the previous neo’s that existed, no idea of how long the matrix has existed. Free human beings would mark the time, would write down their history, there would be some kind of record. I think neo and those free human beings are still in the matrix carrying out some collective psychic need of human beings to be free and fight the matrix. Ultimately the illusion of protecting the free human beings, forces the neo human/software program to sacrifice itself to fix the matrix and keep it going. And then it repeats itself.